How to fix “Firefox is already running” error

Sometimes when I try to start Firefox, it warns me that Firefox is already running. The message looks like this:

Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

Usually, you can just kill the firefox process to solve this problem. For example, on Linux the command “ps auxwww | grep firefox” will find the process number and then “kill [processnumber]” will work fine.

If none of that worked, try killall [processname]. Example to kill Firefox

I have to admit that I am a movie fanatic. I watch a lot of movies regularly and even give my feedback on amazon which confirms that very fact. I was watching a movie today; a movie some would consider old school (China Moon), but I couldn’t help to think that this actor is never in the tabloids or on any of the sleazy tabloid sites and he’s been such an awesome actor; which is usually a prerequisite for being in those sleeay rags. Anyway, I have to admit, I’ve never seen him play a bad role to this day.

He’s been in A Beautiful Mind, GlenGarry Glen Ross, The Truman Show, and China Moon. He’s even been in Creepshow.

He is none other than Ed Harris:

He is the guy that shows up during your schizophrenic episode with orders from the F.B.I., while all these other schizophrenics are seeing talking purple bunnies. I’d rather get orders from Ed.